- Let's have a look now at the inquiry commands…available to us in AutoCAD.…Now these inquiry commands allow us…to measure things like distance and areas…and also allow us to check the ID…of a particular coordinate.…So, we're staying in the plate drawing…and we're now using 2 Inquiry PLATE Complete drawing.…Now, I'm using the complete one…because it's the completed version…and I'll save that back into your exercise…files for you to use.…

If you want to follow along with the video,…make sure that you use 2 Inquiry PLATE Complete.dwg.…Because that's the clean version,…without anything added to it…before the beginning of the video.…So we've got the plate,…we've got some circles,…we've got some rectangles…but we've also got these lines…that we were working on in the previous video.…Now what I've done there is…I've joined them together with this extra line…at the bottom.…And the reason I've done that…is that now we have a closed boundary…that we can calculate an area of.…

More importantly, I can also…measure distances.…If I go to the Home tab up here…

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9/9/2016

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10/23/2015

Become an Autodesk Certified Professional. This training course helps you study for the certification exam while you reinforce your CAD skills. Shaun Bryant helps you understand the two pathways available: Autodesk Certified User—for new designers who want to demonstrate basic proficiency and a commitment to academic success or career development—and Autodesk Certified Professional—for those who possess more advanced skills and can solve complex workflow and design challenges. He then walks through the basic drawing skills, object manipulation techniques, organization skills, annotations, and layout and print options that are necessary to pass both certifications.

Topics include:

Creating and publishing AutoCAD files

Drawing shapes and lines

Creating isometric drawings

Transforming objects

Creating and using arrays

Organizing objects and layers

Reusing content with blocks

Adding text, dimensions, multileaders, and scales

Creating layouts

Setting printing and plotting options

Skill Level Appropriate for all

4h 40m

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Q: Is this certification available for AutoCAD for Mac users?

A: AutoCAD certification is on the Windows environment only. Currently Autodesk does not have plans for an AutoCAD for Mac certification.

Q: This course was updated on 02/01/2016. What changed?

A: We added four new videos to the "Certification: What Is It?" chapter. These tutorials cover Certiport, the online certification service that now offers a variety of Autodesk certifications.